40 TV Characters Who Died in 2018

40 TV Characters Who Died in 2018 (continued):

11. Joaquin DeSantos, Riverdale

Riverdale has yet to kill off any truly major, very important characters, but Joaquin’s unceremonious death stung more than a little.

Many fans were rooting for Joaquin to return permanently and reunite with Kevin. Instead, the former Serpent fell victim to the ongoing Gargoyle King saga. Sweet Pea, Fangs, and Jughead found Joaquin’s dead, blue-lipped body under a plastic tarp at Sunnyside Trailer Park, with the sacrifice symbol branded on his forehead.

12. Bill Pargrave, Killing Eve

For a show that’s all about a remorseless serial killer/assassin, Bill’s murder by Villanelle was particularly difficult to stomach.

After an episode spent deepening his character and his friendship/mentorship with Eve, viewers watched as Bill followed Villanelle to a club. Believing he’d gotten the jump on her, the sociopath suddenly turned the tables. Who didn’t get a chill when she turned and looked him square in the eye before making her way over to him through the throngs of dancing bodies?

Bill’s desperate and useless attempt to escape Villanelle was like something out of a horror movie. It was a spectacularly tense and gut-wrenching sequence, culminating in Bill bleeding out to death from the dozens of tiny stab wounds Villanelle inflicted upon him as Eve tried desperately to reach him. All of the “Sorry baby’s” in the world won’t get us to forgive Villanelle for this one.

13. Rufus Carlin, Timeless

Rufus Carlin’s death was the one that no one saw coming on Timeless Season 2 Episode 10, “Chinatown.” After Jiya was kidnapped and stole a broken lifeboat to try to get back, she ended up in Chinatown. Even though she told Rufus not to come for her, he did anyway.

Jiya wasn’t happy to see him, mostly because she’d finally figured out how to control her visions and knew that she is why Rufus would die. Rufus refused to leave without her, and even though they seemed to subvert Jiya’s vision, the relief was short-lived when Rufus is shot by Emma Whitmore as the team heads back to the Lifeboat.

Rufus died in the past and was left behind, leaving the team to mourn upon their return to the present — though thankfully, this is undone in the recently-released Timeless movie.

14. Carol Preston, Timeless

Carol Preston got a second chance when Lucy went back in time to the Hindenburg disaster in the pilot. After not meeting Lucy’s father, she never became a smoker and never developed lung cancer, but Carol was also hiding a secret: She and Lucy’s biological father were both members of Rittenhouse.

Timeless Season 2 opened with Carol kidnapping Lucy and attempting to indoctrinate her into the secret society. While that ultimately doesn’t work, when she’s shot by Emma Whitmore, she and Lucy have a moment on the floor of a portrait studio.

During their emotional final scene, Carol realized that some things can’t be changed, then continued to express regret that she didn’t tell Lucy about her role in Rittenhouse sooner, citing that there is still so much that Lucy doesn’t know.

15. Rumplestiltskin, Once Upon a Time

Viewers were torn on whether or not the final season of Once Upon a Time was worth tuning into. But no one could deny the impact of Rumple’s sacrifice during the series finale.

It was pretty much expected that at least one major character would die — permanently this time — before the show wrapped for good. And it made sense that it would be Rumple. After all, we’d seen earlier in the season that Belle died years earlier and was waiting to reunite with him.

Rumple had an emotional end that befitted his long character arc and journey from villain to hero. He sacrificed himself, ripping out and crushing his own heart to stop Wish Rumple. Thankfully, writers rewarded longtime Rumbelle fans with a beautiful afterlife reunion between the two soulmates — Beauty and the Beast costumes and all!

16. Michael Langdon, American Horror Story: Apocalypse

Michael was the Antichrist and singlehandedly responsible for the deaths of billions of people around the world — which was why it was kind of weird how upsetting his death scene was!

After trying in vain to defeat Michael in the original timeline, the surviving members of the Coven finally figured out what they would have to do to stop him once and for all: go back in time and kill him. After virtually every other person sacrificed themselves to buy her more time, Mallory successfully performed Tempus Infinituum and repeatedly ran the younger, less powerful version of teen Michael over with a car.

Sure he was a terrible dude — and literally pure evil — but it was still a bit emotional to see the terrified young man left abandoned and bleeding to death on the sidewalk by his grandma Constance Langdon, who flatly refused to bring him over to Murder House to “live on” after death as a ghost. Ouch.

17. Jack Pearson, This Is Us

Viewers had known for a while that Jack was dead, given the structure of This Is Us and its storytelling. Despite that, the writers managed to pull a fast one on us, having Jack initially survive the house fire only to succumb to cardiac arrest hours later.

It was just the kind of one-two punch This Is Us is famous for, mining the long-anticipated moment for the maximum amount of drama and emotion.

Who can ever forget Rebecca’s crushed reaction when it finally dawns on her that Jack is dead after she sees his still body in the hospital room? The fact that he died without Rebecca or any of his beloved Big Three by his side was the real depressing cherry on top of this enormously heartbreaking death.

18. Carl Grimes, The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead is obviously chock full of death, but people were not expecting the writers to kill off Carl Grimes. For starters, he was still quite young, and he’d been a main character on the show — one of the very few still left from the beginning, eight seasons in. On top of that, Carl’s source material counterpart is still going strong with a very prominent storyline in the ongoing comics.

Despite all that, Carl was bitten by a walker and died after shooting himself in the head in an effort to avoid reawakening as a zombie, after a long, emotional goodbye with his dad and Michonne.

19. Jesus, The Walking Dead

Paul “Jesus” Rovia made a memorable entrance into The Walking Dead when he led Rick and Daryl on a high adrenaline chase through the dystopian backroads of Virginia.

Tom Payne’s compelling and sincere depiction didn’t make it hard to love Jesus with his on-point man bun, positive outlook, and knowledge of various fighting styles. But it was hard to watch him get sidelined for most of his time on the show.

For one glorious moment, it looked like Jesus would get to step out of the shadows as he was finally given his badass fight scene in an epic graveyard battle with a herd of walkers. Then, in a devastating turn of events, he was brutally killed off when a “walker” dodged his attack and plunged Jesus’ own sword into his back.

Jesus death was not all in vain. He went out introducing arguably the most terrifying villains of The Walking Dead universe — The Whisperers. But nothing stings more about Jesus’ death than the unreached character potential and the waste of a good man bun.

20. Alison Bailey, The Affair

The other characters aren’t quite sure how Alison Bailey died on The Affair Season 4 Episode 8, “408,” yet. One perspective in her death episode implies suicide, while another implies that Ben, a man she was seeing, knocked her against the wall causing head trauma. Anna Paquin has signed on to play Joanie all grown up and dedicated to solving the mystery of her mom’s death in Season 5.

Despite the potential for new stories from this horrible tragedy, it was still shocking and awful to see one of the series’ main characters so suddenly and brutally killed off.

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